On March 5 Professor Angela Brintlinger was invited to speak in the "Bodies of Knowledge" series at Princeton Universities Humanities Council. Brintlinger's lecture, "Standing in Line: Bodies in a Struggle with Soviet Scarcity," built on her scholarly work on issues of scarcity and distribution in the late Soviet period, focusing on food insecurity and its societal repercussions as presented in Russian literature. Her argument, that a Soviet line can be seen as Foucauldian in its self-policing and that lines in some ways presented a form of confinement in the Soviet period, engages multidisciplinary conversations surrounding bodies, their environs, and their representations. Brintlinger will present a related talk at an online conference in Russia in late April, where her work will access art and aesthetic practices related to prisons and imprisonment. That talk, "Prisoners in Search of Space," brings the performance art of Tehching (Sam) Hsieh to a Russian audience at the VII Annual "Non-canonical Aesthetics" Interdisciplinary Conference "Taboo in Literature and Art." The resonance of the theme in a time of COVID-19 and forced isolation and social distancing is not lost on her and will inform the online presentation and subsequent distanced discussion.